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05/16/12 - 12:07am

Vendors sought

The annual Rotary Club of Columbia County yard sale will be held 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Colum­bia County Fairgrounds on Columbia Road. For vendor spaces, call Connie Redmond at (706) 863-5500. Admission is free; parking costs $2.

Concert

The ensemble Rivien will perform in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 3551 Wheeler Road, Augusta. Tickets cost $10 and are available by calling (706) 736-4575.

05/16/12 - 12:06am

Columbia County commissioners approved a more than $7 million bid Tuesday to build a new exhibition hall in the Gateway shopping center near Grovetown. Augusta-based McKnight Construction Co. won the nearly $7.3 million project to build the multi-purpose exhibition hall that also will house a Family Y facility. Construction should start during the first week of June and is scheduled to be completed by early 2013, said county Construction and Maintenance Services Director Matt Schlachter.

A Harlem High School senior was killed Tuesday after his SUV flipped and hit a tree in Appling.

Jonathan Hartman, 18, of Appling, was pronounced dead at 10:18 p.m. at Medical College of Georgia Hospital, according to Columbia County Deputy Coroner Bonnie Holloway. He died of head trauma, she said.